WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the Middle Ages, the manor system was the basic economic arrangement. The manor system rested on a set of rights and obligations between a lord and his serfs. The lord provided the serfs with housing, farmland, and protection from bandits.

Detailed explanation-2: -The medieval manor was a large estate granted to a lord by the king. The manor house served as the communal center of the manor as well as the residence of the lord and his family. Peasants were allowed to live on the manor in exchange for working the land reserved for the lord, known as the demesne.

Detailed explanation-3: -WHAT IS ON A MANOR? The people living on the manor were from all “levels” of Feudalism: Peasants, Knights, Lords, and Nobles. There were usually large fields around the Manor used for livestock, crops, and hunting. The only people allowed to hunt in the manor’s forests were nobles.

Detailed explanation-4: -Manorial system or seignorial system, was the economic and social system of medieval Europe under which peasants’ land tenure and production were regulated, and local justice and taxation were administered.